This is a long story and in Melbourne only bits and pieces have filtered through the fog, but as much as possible will be detailed.
Here is the Mike Carlton article - without the cartoon at the centre of some explosive attacks about the cartoonist's and Carlton's supposed anti-semitism - the expression all zionists use for any criticisms of their beloved country Israel:
Israel
Mike Carlton
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The
images from Gaza are searing, a gallery of death and horror. A dishevelled
Palestinian man cries out in agony, his blood-soaked little brother dead in his
arms. On a filthy hospital bed a boy of perhaps five or six screams for his
father, his head and body lacerated by shrapnel. A teenage girl lies on a torn
stretcher, her limbs awry, her face and torso blackened like a burnt steak.
Mourners weep over a family of 18 men, women and children laid side by side in
bloodied shrouds. Four boys of a fishing family named Bakr, all less than 12
years old, are killed on a beach by rockets from Israeli aircraft.
As
I write, after just over a week of this invasion, the death toll of
Palestinians is climbing towards 1000. Most are civilians, many are children.
Assaulting Gaza by land, air and sea, Israel has destroyed homes and reduced entire city blocks to
rubble. It has attacked schools, mosques and hospitals. Tens of thousands of
people have fled, although there is nowhere safe for them to go in this
wretched strip of land just 40 kilometres long and about 10 kilometres
wide. There are desperate shortages of food and water, of medical and
surgical supplies.
In
an open letter to US President Barack Obama, Dr Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian
surgeon working at Gaza 's al-Shifa hospital, writes of "the incomprehensible
chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing,
bleeding, not bleeding humans. Humans!
"Ashy
grey faces – Oh no! Not one more load of tens of maimed and bleeding. We still
have lakes of blood on the floor in the emergency room, piles of dripping,
blood-soaked bandages to clear out ... the cleaners, everywhere, swiftly
shovelling the blood and discarded tissues, hair, clothes, cannulas – the
leftovers from death – all taken away... to be prepared again, to be repeated
all over."
The
onslaught is indiscriminate and unrelenting, with but one possible conclusion: Israel is not fighting the terrorists of Hamas. In defiance of
the laws of war and the norms of civilised behaviour, it is waging its own war
of terror on the entire Gaza population of about 1.7 million people. Call it
genocide, call it ethnic cleansing: the aim is to kill Arabs.
As
none other than Malcolm Fraser tweeted this week: "If any other country
went to war killing as many civilians, women and children, it would be named a
war crime." But it is not, although the UN is asking the question of both
sides.
Yes,
Hamas is also trying to kill Israeli civilians, with a barrage of rockets and
guerilla border attacks. It, too, is guilty of terror and grave war crimes. But
Israeli citizens and their homes and towns have been effectively shielded by
the nation's Iron Dome defence system, and so far only three of its civilians
have died in this latest conflict. The Israeli response has been out of all
proportion, a monstrous distortion of the much-vaunted right of self defence.
It
is a breathtaking irony that these atrocities can be committed by a people with
a proud liberal tradition of scholarship and culture, who hold the Warsaw
Ghetto and the six million dead of the Holocaust at the centre of their race
memory. But this is a new and brutal Israel dominated by the hardline, right-wing Likud Party of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition. As one observer puts it:
"All the seeds of the incitement of the past few years, all the
nationalistic, racist legislation and the incendiary propaganda, the scare
campaigns and the subversion of democracy by the right-wing camp – all these
have borne fruit, and that fruit is rank and rotten. The nationalist right has
now sunk to a new level, with almost the whole country following in its wake.
The word 'fascism', which I try to use as little as possible, finally has its
deserved place in the Israeli political discourse."
Fascism
in Israel ? At this point the Australian Likudniks, as Bob Carr calls
them, will be lunging for their keyboards. There will be the customary torrent
of abusive emails calling me a Nazi, an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier, an
ignoramus. As usual they will demand my resignation, my sacking. As it's
been before, some of this will be pornographic or threatening violence.
In
fact, that paragraph within the quotation marks was written by an Israeli.
Gideon Levy is a columnist and editorial board member of the daily
newspaper Ha’aretz. Born in Tel Aviv to parents who fled the Nazi
occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he despairs of what his country has become and
the catastrophe its armed forces are visiting upon Gaza . After a recent column calling on Israeli pilots to stop bombing and
rocketing civilians, his life was threatened and he now has a bodyguard day and
night. It has come to that. In the worst insult of all, Levy is branded "a
self-hating Jew".
Israeli
propaganda is subtle and skillfully put. "If Israel were to lay down its arms tomorrow, she would be
destroyed; but if Hamas were to lay down their arms, there would be
peace," goes the line, parroted endlessly.
But
in all these long and agonising decades, Israel has never offered the Palestinians a just and equitable
peace. They would have only a splintered, vassal state, their polity and
economy and even their borders and freedom of travel and trade managed and
determined by Israel . The occupation of Palestinian lands would remain with the
relentless expansion of illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank of
the Jordan and the Dead
Sea .
As
the Palestine Liberation Organisation official Hanan Ashrawi put it this week
in a television interview with the Australian journalist Hamish Macdonald:
"No nation can accept being imprisoned, being besieged by land, by air, by
sea and deprived of the most basic requirements of a decent life: freedom of
movement, clean water. For seven years they have been under a brutal and lethal
Israeli siege ... You shell them and you bomb them; you destroy homes, you
destroy whole neighbourhoods. You obliterate, annihilate, whole families, and
then you come and say that this is self defence?"
That
is why the killing and the dying goes on. Ad nauseam, ad infinitum. And the
rest of the world, not caring, looks away.
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That was the start of a very ugly saga which revealed the zionist influence on not only the Fairfax media, but also the Murdoch media and left both groups with mud on their faces.
At the end of his article, apparently Carlton provided his email address for people to send comments, and apparently they did, in large and abusive numbers. In responding to many of the nastiest, Carlton used language which the SMH took exception to, and the Murdoch media got hold of some of them and between them all they made a gigantic issue of it.
Carlton told some of them - and I am on his side about this, although many are not - to fuck off.
Many comments called him anti-semitic and many other crudities, probably too numerous to list here, but you get the drift!
My take on all of it is that the zionist community in Australia think they have the right to insult and abuse anyone, Jewish or otherwise, who dares to criticise apartheid zionist Israel which has been behaving as revoltingly as any police state with which we have become acquainted in the last 150 years.
The Sydney Morning Herald decided to suspend Carlton and called him in to tell him, at which stage he promptly - and correctly - resigned. In my view he had nothing to apologise for, but of course thousands have seen it differently.
The Murdoch media, who are incapable of keeping their paws off anything they deem to be fair game, climbed in with an article and cartoon, all of which were as to be expected, disgusting. The cartoon has since been withdrawn and is no longer available on the web.
The same has happened with the Glen Le Lievre cartoon which appeared with the Carlton article, and it was, together with the cartoonist, accused of the vilest anti-semitic slurs and insults known to the semi-literate newspaper classes.
If we have reached the stage when comments about Israel are off limits, then censorship of the worst type has arrived and the intimidation of journalists and those who respond to articles and blogs will be complete.
It is up to all of us to complain about those in Australia who support Israel at all times and under all circumstances, and those of the so-called Jewish religion need to take themselves off to Israel and stop pretending to show any joy at living in Australia.
I don't think the story is finished yet. Practically all politicians in Australia are zionists, whether they are Jewish or several other religions and they are all in the pocket of the Australian Jewish zionists who have them literally eating out of their pockets with their wonderful free trips to Israel.
It is all to nauseous to contemplate, and as one of our friends says when reading some of these disgusting goings-on, have a bucket handy!
At the end of his article, apparently Carlton provided his email address for people to send comments, and apparently they did, in large and abusive numbers. In responding to many of the nastiest, Carlton used language which the SMH took exception to, and the Murdoch media got hold of some of them and between them all they made a gigantic issue of it.
Carlton told some of them - and I am on his side about this, although many are not - to fuck off.
Many comments called him anti-semitic and many other crudities, probably too numerous to list here, but you get the drift!
My take on all of it is that the zionist community in Australia think they have the right to insult and abuse anyone, Jewish or otherwise, who dares to criticise apartheid zionist Israel which has been behaving as revoltingly as any police state with which we have become acquainted in the last 150 years.
The Sydney Morning Herald decided to suspend Carlton and called him in to tell him, at which stage he promptly - and correctly - resigned. In my view he had nothing to apologise for, but of course thousands have seen it differently.
The Murdoch media, who are incapable of keeping their paws off anything they deem to be fair game, climbed in with an article and cartoon, all of which were as to be expected, disgusting. The cartoon has since been withdrawn and is no longer available on the web.
The same has happened with the Glen Le Lievre cartoon which appeared with the Carlton article, and it was, together with the cartoonist, accused of the vilest anti-semitic slurs and insults known to the semi-literate newspaper classes.
If we have reached the stage when comments about Israel are off limits, then censorship of the worst type has arrived and the intimidation of journalists and those who respond to articles and blogs will be complete.
It is up to all of us to complain about those in Australia who support Israel at all times and under all circumstances, and those of the so-called Jewish religion need to take themselves off to Israel and stop pretending to show any joy at living in Australia.
I don't think the story is finished yet. Practically all politicians in Australia are zionists, whether they are Jewish or several other religions and they are all in the pocket of the Australian Jewish zionists who have them literally eating out of their pockets with their wonderful free trips to Israel.
It is all to nauseous to contemplate, and as one of our friends says when reading some of these disgusting goings-on, have a bucket handy!
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